Public bug reported: Few (at this moment 11) hours after starting gnome-shell, it uses about 67% of 2GB system memory (the ram), and maybe few hundred MB-s of the swap, too. I know it is not Ubuntu only, it appears in Fedora, Arch and more.
lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 apt-cache policy gnome-shell gnome-shell: Telepítve: 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 Jelölt: 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 Verziótáblázat: *** 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 19 05:35:41 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: PATH=(cusUser Name, no user) LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (5 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877885 Title: memory leak in gnome-shell To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/877885/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs